Fiction - Psychological

When four bodies are discovered on Langdon Bay, Detective Inspector Wallace Hammond is called to investigate. It is evident that all of the deceased were subjected to a hate driven crime. Hammond and his team have only one clue on which to base their...

Do you want to read Metamorphosis? If so then keep reading...Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the...

For readers who enjoyed Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter, and The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.Meg Storm has stepped in it. After becoming entangled within an industry as nefarious as it is criminal, she gets swept into...

Set during the political upheavals of 19th Century England, Middlemarch is an epic story of love, politics, and passion. The novel follows lives of the ambitious young Doctor Lydgate as he takes up his position at Middlemarch's new hospital, and Dorothea Brooke who desperately...

A history play by William Shakespeare which follows life of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The early scenes deal with the embarkation of Henry's fleet for France, and...

A tragedy by William Shakespeare, one of several plays written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history. The play opens with the commoners of Rome celebrating Caesar's triumphant return from defeating Pompey's sons at the battle of Munda. Two tribunes, Flavius and...

The comedy begins with an induction in which we follow a drunken tinker being tricked into believing he is a nobleman. He then watches a play depicting nobleman Petruchio's marriage with an outspoken, intelligent and bad-tempered shrew named Katherine. Petruchio manipulates and tames her...

Set on a remote island, where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...

One of Shakespeare's most famous stories of young lovers, Romeo and Juliet who would do anything to be together.William Shakespeare, an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His plays have been...

John Sweeney is CEO at Alpha. He is also a psychopath with a vile secret. He learnt everything he knows about managing people from the mad house where he spend most of his youth and now he uses the place to recruit his henchmen...

'I loved this book ... So gripping that I read it in one sitting. I just couldn't put it down.' Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars The letter is addressed to me. No stamp, swirly handwriting in black ink. I pull out a piece of paper,...

For the third time this week he is watching her scream.Watching, not listening.Rebecca Laurence is centre stage and shining in her role as Ophelia. She pivots, rotating like a ballerina impaled in a musical box, red hair cascading down her back.Amidst the thundering applause,...

WINNER OF THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022 49TH STREET EDITOR'S PICK FOR SEPTEMBER 2022 A reclamation offemale rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman. Frances is quiet and reclusive, so much so that...

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoyevsky completed...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize - Shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards - Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Longlisted for the 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award - Longlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardSELECTED BY NEW YORK TIMES AS...

Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man's reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn't do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has...

Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin. Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by...

Following the arrest of her youngest son, caught burying a body in the woods near the home where she raised him, Meredith Mayes moves through the memories of her own life with disbelief. Her sense of loss is familiar: her husband and firstborn son...

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.Author: Jane AustenISBN-10: 1979125783ISBN-13: 9781979125789Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2017Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.46d

Full text.The emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents their relationship with sympathy and insight, and the story...

Obsessive and hungover, Christina rouses herself from a night of partying at Claytor Lake in time for the cops to arrive. There has been an apparent drowning, and she is unfamiliar with the evening's prior events. She must have blacked out-again. What she remembers...

Sit beside author Kevin Walsh, whose novel Tribal Bonds reads like a riveting fireside tale. The loves, dreams, challenges of three generations of the O'Toole family in St Louis, Missouri, from 1922 to 1994, spin out from page to page. When the clan's lives...

Three Lives, Stein's collection of three biographical portraits of lower-class women, combines French literary realism with American psychological theory. Two stories describe the monotonous lives of Anna and Lena, two German servant girls in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Williams James's psychological theories inspired Stein's episodic style,...

John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for...

Pierre; or The Ambiguities is a novel by Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick. First published in 1852, the tale uses many plot devices from Gothic fiction novels. A psychological thriller, the book was condemned in its day as disturbing due to its...

How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to...

How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to...

THE BULGARIAN PSYCHIATRIST arrived with a suitcase filled with ties, and knowing how to wear a dead man's clothes, and how to initiate a son into the art of beating a prisoner to death and ... all of which did not prepare him for...

Jaded and adrift, a young painter in New York joins his fate to a mercurial titan of industry in the hopes of finding a new artistic form-and quite possibly a new life. Cutting-edge intoxicants, the vagaries of desire, and an obscure art magazine with...

In his debut collection, Marston Hefner brings a unique voice and playful style to meditations on self-acceptance, the folly of youth, and how love can lead to actualization and destruction. Through moments of family intimacy, work presentations, vacations, doomed relationships, or businessmen chasing the...

It takes the perfect student to commit the perfect crime.From USA Today and international bestselling author Jenifer Ruff--a dark thriller.Medical school at Rothaker University is cutthroat, which is perfect for first-year student Brooke Walton. She thrives on the work and the stress-it's the people...

Novel: CPOP-1986 is the tale of young New York City policeman assigned to the newly implemented Community Patrol Officers Program. The concept of CPOP was to advance police /community relations by putting the cop back on the beat, door to door, store to store....

"Originally marketed as "occult horror", Ariel is neither. It's a story of the madness that lies just under the surface, and what it takes to bring it out; the need to give evil a face and a name. Who better to scapegoat for unexplainable...

When is a book about sex not about sex? In Tom Bleakley and Marcia Lange's novel, the puzzling question is asked: What is the real cause of AIDS? This question meets the very definition of "conundrum." Webster's Dictionary defines the word as "any puzzling...

Are you looking for some scary stories to tell at your next sleepover? Look no further than A Web of Tragedy( a book of short stories). Nothing is what it seems This book has mysterious Are you looking for some scary stories to tell...

Kell was diagnosed with OCD at the age of 21 and created Kara as a way of reflecting on her illness. She has often found other media portrayals of OCD to be lacking, relying too much on stereotypes and not truly connecting the outward...

Tony Carpenter loves Karina. It doesn't matter that they're only fourteen, because when they're together they forget about their abusive homes. They run away, leaving a trail of murder in their wake, until Tony is caught and sent to Secret Harbor School - a...

Eli Cranston, Esq. has fled his Los Angeles law practice after the loss of his wife and daughter. Thirty-four hundred miles away a new life was waiting; one in which Eli could find redemption, forgiveness, and a purpose, if only he would allow it.In...

"The very model of the modern paranoid novel" (New York Times) and an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England's greatest novelists. Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been...

How does one find the path from barely surviving to thriving?Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise...

How does one find the path from barely surviving to thriving?Make yourself a cup of tea and gently enter a world where Tegan, Jonathan, and Lawrence navigate the ups and downs of their mental health. The paths of childhood friends, work colleagues, and exercise...

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 An incendiary debut novel from a brash new talent--a pitch-black comedy, both shocking and hilarious, which fearlessly explores sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century. "Hallucinogenic, electric and sharp, Boy Parts is a whirlwind exploration...

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful...

In this deviously volatile, deliciously creepy thriller from the bestselling author of The Social Affair and HER, a young woman must uncover the haunting truth about the turn of events that left her forever marked...On a crisp fall morning in Austin, Texas, it is...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

When fading comedian Jim Wilson is found dead in his hotel bed at the end of a week-long engagement at a South Wales theatre, his wife Joanne refuses to believe he has taken his own life.Her private investigations involve interrogating the last three women...

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a young nation and tore apart a community in a single night--told from the perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno...

As teenagers in Brookline, Massachusetts, Barry and Elliot were best friends, sharing their passions for sports, music, movies, and girls, as well as their dreams of literary fame. Years later, when it appears Barry's mother will inherit over a million dollars, the friends start...

"...manufactures its own uncanny light by which to read." --Selah Saterstrom, author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab "Strange, moving, extraordinary..." --Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie and Neverhome "...magical and a revelation" --Janice Lee, author of Separation Anxiety and Imagine a Death Acacia, a Book...